Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg
Princess Victoria Luise Marie Auguste Karoline Leopoldine Antoinette of Mecklenburg -Strelitz ( born May 8, 1878 in Neustrelitz, † October 14, 1948 in Upper Kassel in Bonn ) was a member of the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg -Strelitz.
Life
Victoria Marie was the eldest daughter of four children of Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich V (1848-1914) and his wife Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt- Dessau (1857-1933), daughter of Duke Friedrich I and Princess Antoinette of Saxe- Altenburg. Your paternal grandparents were Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg [- Strelitz ] and Princess Augusta Caroline of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover.
Her childhood revolved around perfect behavior and the social representation. She was taught entirely at home by governesses and tutors with the help of her father's library. Princess Victoria Marie fell in love with a married palace servant, Frederick Hecht, and when she became pregnant shortly thereafter, she traveled to her grandmother to England to avoid a scandal. In London she brought 1898 to a daughter. The child 's father was released from the Grand Duke's service and had to answer later for theft in court.
Victoria Marie went shortly afterwards to France, where they Count Georg Jametel Maurice (1859-1944), son of Ernest Jametel, a banker and medicine manufacturers met. His father was in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the peerage. On June 22, 1899 married in a Catholic chapel in Richmond Park, near the White Lodge, the estate of her great-aunt, the Duchess of Teck Mary Adelaide. On the same day there was a second wedding in the Anglican parish church in Kew. Although the marriage was considered a left-handed marriage, she got a yearly appanage of 200,000 U.S. dollars. From the marriage, which reportedly was unhappy, had two children:
- Georg Friedrich (1904-1982), Count Jametel ∞ 1948 Lise Barbet
- Marie Auguste ( May ) ( 1905-1969 ), Countess Jametel, since 1910 Countess Nemerow ∞ 1928 Karl v. Barton, called v. Stedman
In the first years of his marriage the couple lived alternately in London and in Saint- Germain -en- Laye, Ile -de -France. After the marriage failed, the couple lived from 1906 separately. After the love affair between her husband and the Princess Maria Eulalia de Bourbon- Montpensier had become public, she filed for divorce in 1908. In August of the same year urged her younger brother Karl Borwin to defend the honor of his sister, whose estranged husband to a duel - while he was fatally injured. On December 31, 1908, the marriage ended in divorce and her daughter got from the Grand Duke the title of Countess of Nemerow awarded. Together with her daughter, she lived in Neustrelitz and later in bubble joke, a residential suburb near Dresden.
On August 11, 1914 married Countess Marie Victoria Neustrelitz Prince Julius Ernst of Lippe ( Noble Lord and Count of Biesterfeld etc.) ( 1873-1952 ), the third son of Ernst zur Lippe - Biesterfeld and Karoline, née Countess of Wartensleben. From the marriage, which reportedly was happy, had two children:
- Elizabeth Caroline (* 1916), Princess of Lippe ∞ 1939 Ernst August, Prince of Solms- Braunfels
- Ernst August (1917-1990), Prince of Lippe ( Noble Lord and Count of Biesterfeld etc. ) ∞ 1944 Christa von Arnim
Princess Victoria Mary died during a spa stay in Upper Kassel from the effects of pneumonia and was buried in the family tomb of the princely family of Lippe in Heisterbach, King Winter monastery.